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The high school reunion occurs throughout the United States and cuts across differences in age, locality, and ethnicity. Drawing on candid personal narratives derived from reunions ranging from the fifth to the fiftieth, this pathbreaking study demonstrates, however, that for many Americans the high school reunion is a rich and often poignant experience.
The author examines the American high school reunion as a dramatic scene in the construction of self and meaning in adulthood. During the high school reunion, Americans are thrown into a room full of mirrors in which they are confronted by different visions of themselves. There they see images of their high school selves filtered through the lights and shadow's cast by classmates memories and projected against the backdrop created by the lives of those classmates in the present day.
Through an analysis of the multiple reflections of self that emerge during reunions, the author shows how reunions afford people an occasion on which to reevaluate their own memories and arrive at a new understanding of self. The American high school reunion thus provides participants with a series of self-perceptions from which they can construct new narratives of their own lives.
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Class reunions, High schoolsPlaces
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A Room Full of Mirrors: High School Reunions in Middle America
January 1, 1999, Stanford University Press
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A room full of mirrors: high school reunions in middle America
1998, Stanford University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-197) and index.
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"An ethnography is the product of a unique reflexive relationship between the ethnographer, the people she studies, and the audience to whom she addresses her findings."
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